Giovanni Marchiori

G. Marchiori: David with the head of Goliath , San Rocco , Venice

Giovanni Marchiori (born March 31, 1696 in Caviola d'Agordo , † January 2, 1778 in Treviso ) was a northern Italian sculptor . His work comprised sculptures mainly for the decoration of churches but also for gardens. The subjects of his works are Christian or come from Roman mythology .

Life

Marchiori's father had the same name and his mother was Maria Maddalena Fent . In 1708 he was an apprentice with Giuseppe Fanoli in Venice . Apparently he also learned wood carving from Andrea Brustolon . In 1725 he enrolled in the College of Sculptors founded two years earlier.

At the beginning of Marchiori's artistic activity there were wood sculptures. The first signed works in marble can be found from 1737. Around 1750 he moved to Treviso. He died in Treviso in 1778 and was buried in San Tommaso at the side of his wife.

Works

Giovanni Marchiori: Saturn eats his children in the Nymphenburg Palace Park

Almost all of his surviving works are in the Veneto. The 24 carved wood cabinet doors in the upper hall of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, which were made between 1741 and 1743, are of high artistic quality . For the church of San Rocco , he created several wooden figures for the organ in 1744, the marble sculptures David with the head of Goliath and St. Cäcilia , which had an early classicist effect and which foreshadow Canova in their elegance . For the facade of the same church, he also created the statues of St. Gerardo Sagredo and Pietro Orseolo from 1766–67 .

In Austria there are four statues for the main altar of Graz Cathedral (1731–32). In Germany, the Carrara marble statues of Cybele and Saturn are in Nymphenburg Park (both before 1765). Both statues were transported from Treviso to Munich via Mittenwald in 1765 .

Giovanni Marchiori: Noli me tangere in Berlin

In Berlin there is the marble sculpture group Noli me tangere , which originally had its place on the high altar in St. Hedwig's Cathedral , was moved to the chapel of the Hedwigsgemeinde in the cemetery in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen after 1945 and has been in St. Marien (Berlin-Karlshorst) church stands in a small side chapel.

In the garden of the Villa Grimani in Martellago there were four allegorical garden sculptures (around 1750); they are now in Morristown , New Jersey .

literature

Marchiori, Giovanni . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 70 .
Massimo De Grassi: Marchiori, Giovanni. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 69: Mangiabotti – Marconi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2007, pp. 708-711.
Paola Rossi: The Age of Enlightenment - The Venetian Sculpture in the 18th Century. In: Giandomenico Romanelli (Ed.): Venice - Art and Architecture. Volume 2, Könemann, Cologne, 1997, pp. 718-739, here: pp. 735-737.
Camillo Semenzato: Marchiori, Giovanni. In: Jane Turner (Ed.): The dictionary of art . Volume 20. Macmillan, London 1996, ISBN 1-884446-00-0 , p. 394, col. 1.
Matej Klemenčič: "In partenza per lo Stato Imperiale": Venetian sculptors and the Austrian countries in the first half of the 18th century , in: Barockberichte 61 (2013) 59–73.

Web links

Commons : Giovanni Marchiori - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Paola Rossi: The Age of Enlightenment - The Venetian sculpture in the 18th century. In: Giandomenico Romanelli (Ed.): Venice - Art and Architecture. Volume 2, Könemann, Cologne, 1997, pp. 718-739, here: pp. 735f
↑ Paola Rossi: The Age of Enlightenment - The Venetian sculpture in the 18th century. In: Giandomenico Romanelli (Ed.): Venice - Art and Architecture. Volume 2, Könemann, Cologne, 1997, pp. 718-739, here: pp. 736-737.
↑ Paola Rossi: The Age of Enlightenment - The Venetian sculpture in the 18th century. In: Giandomenico Romanelli (Ed.): Venice - Art and Architecture. Volume 2, Könemann, Cologne, 1997, pp. 718-739, here: p. 737.

personal data
SURNAME	Marchiori, Giovanni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Merchiori, Giovanni; Melchiori, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 31, 1696
PLACE OF BIRTH	Caviola d'Agordo
DATE OF DEATH	January 2, 1778
Place of death	Treviso

[1] Paola Rossi: The Age of Enlightenment - The Venetian sculpture in the 18th century. In: Giandomenico Romanelli (Ed.): Venice - Art and Architecture. Volume 2, Könemann, Cologne, 1997, pp. 718-739, here: pp. 735f

[2] Paola Rossi: The Age of Enlightenment - The Venetian sculpture in the 18th century. In: Giandomenico Romanelli (Ed.): Venice - Art and Architecture. Volume 2, Könemann, Cologne, 1997, pp. 718-739, here: pp. 736-737.

[3] Paola Rossi: The Age of Enlightenment - The Venetian sculpture in the 18th century. In: Giandomenico Romanelli (Ed.): Venice - Art and Architecture. Volume 2, Könemann, Cologne, 1997, pp. 718-739, here: p. 737.